FedEx selects IBM servers

JanetHaney

PITTSBURGH (CBS.MW) – Tech giant IBM said Friday that FedEx has chosen its servers to aid in tracking packages.

FedEx (FDX) selected IBM’s (IBM) RS/6000 S80 servers to help track the 1.5 million packages a day that go through its network.

Package handlers will use wearable scanning technology in order to gather data as the packages are loaded onto vehicles. The scanned information then goes directly into the S80 server.

“We realized that the IBM servers were able to handle a much larger volume of scanning for our 7,000 plus scanners running on just two S80's," said Ken Spangler, director of IT Field Systems, FedEx Ground. "More importantly, the S80's have the horsepower and can be configured to allow future scalability while still providing failover capacity in the event of a server or network problem."

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